Improvement in buggy-tops



WILLIAM TAN N ER & WILLIAM SH I IVIANAUR.

Improvement in Buggy-Tops.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM TANNER AND WILLIAM SHIMANAUR, OF FINDLEY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUGGY-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,715, dated June 11,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM TANNER and WILLIAM SHIMANAUR, of Findley,in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented elevation,showing the buggy-top inclined.

This invention relates to an improvement in I buggy-tops; and consistsof a metallic sheath,

provided with a vertical ornamental guard, connected with the bows ofthe top by a jointbrace, so as to partially incase and slide upon a flatmetallic rail or guide secured to the shifting-rail of the seat; theobject being to produce a self-adjusting slide-rest and prop- 7 blockfor carriage-tops.

In the drawing, A is the metallic sheath, and B the vertical ornamentalflange or guard. The sheath A partially incases a flat metallic rail orguide, 0, secured to the shiftin grail D at its front, outside of thebows G, by a nut, and at its rear by a scroll-block, E, having bracesFF. A recess, K, in the upper side of the sheath A receives the ends ofa curved spring, L, which presses upon the guide 0 and holds the sheathA in any position to which it may be drawn. A joint-brace, I, connectsthe sheath A with the bows G.

When the buggytop, connected to the sheath A by the joint-brace I, isthrown back, the brace I causes the metallic sheath A to slide back uponthe rail or guide 0 until the buggy-top rests upon the sheath A. Whenthe buggy-top is raised the sheath is drawn back to place.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and useful,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A self-adjusting slide-restand prop-block for carriage-tops, consisting of the metallic sheath A,provided with the vertical ornamental guard B, connected with the bows Gby the joint-brace I, and partially incasin g the rail or guide 0secured to the shifting-rail D, substantially as and for the purposehereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that we claim'the foregoing improvement in buggy-tops, asabovedescribed, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 6th day ofApril, 187 2.

WILLIAM TANNER. [L. s.] WILLIAM SHIMANAUR. [L. s j Witnesses:

J AS. A. Born, B. HUBER.

